Traders Take Some Profits,
Pushing Stock Prices Down

Thanksgiving still is a week away, but plenty of people on Wall Street already are taking time out to digest Tuesday's big gains.

After a 22.5% advance in less than a month, the Nasdaq Composite Index yesterday gave way to profit-taking, falling 26.13 points, or 0.79%, to 3269.39. The modest decline marked only the third trading day in the past 14 that the index, dominated by technology stocks, failed to close at a record. Nasdaq did...